Head Coaching Candidates - Finalists Nurse/Atkinson/Griffin - Another New Poll Added

RubberSoul · Post #741 » by **RubberSoul** » Sun May 14, 2023 1:54 am

JayMKE wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:Suns job now open.

Worse, Monty now available

I’m choosing to have blind faith that we aren’t that dumb but we may very well be.

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Matches Malone · Post #742 » by **Matches Malone** » Sun May 14, 2023 1:57 am

RubberSoul wrote:
JayMKE wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:Suns job now open.

Worse, Monty now available

I’m choosing to have blind faith that we aren’t that dumb but we may very well be.

I could very well see him being the hire. He fits from a culture/lockerroom standpoint which Horst and Edens might fall in love with. I'd be pretty bummed if they go that route.

ReginaldDwight · Post #743 » by **ReginaldDwight** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:00 am

Milbucks96 wrote:Nick Nurse has to want to come here, nobody knows if he even wants to.

Coach the best player in the world in a low cost of living city. Sounds like a great job.

mke_design · Post #744 » by **mke_design** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:00 am

Is Monty good at all?

soxperry · Post #745 » by **soxperry** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:01 am

i dont think any of us actually understand what hiring Monty would mean vs. hiring anyone else. it's way above our paygrade. the Suns didn't lose because of Monty, they lost because Paul got hurt and without him they have very little beyond KD and Booker. Ayton depends on CP3 a lot. He was fired so that they could get a fresh start, much like us. Will it actually make them better vs. retooling with the same coach? who knows.

Our situation is different though. Someone needed to get fired for us losing to Miami.

Milbucks96 · Post #746 » by **Milbucks96** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:03 am

ReginaldDwight wrote:
Milbucks96 wrote:Nick Nurse has to want to come here, nobody knows if he even wants to.

Coach the best player in the world in a low cost of living city. Sounds like a great job.

How long is the best player in the world going to be here though. Anybody that’s coming in has to ask that question. Realistically we could be a year away from a trade request.

Daver · Post #747 » by **Daver** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:06 am

Guess now with monty available we will mow see A uf nurse reakly wanted to come here with that suns job now open and 2 if the bucks (im talking to you knumb nuts horst) if hes as good as i think he is n he juat stops all these interviews n signs nurse already

Daver · Post #748 » by **Daver** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:11 am

Matches Malone wrote:
RubberSoul wrote:
JayMKE wrote:
Worse, Monty now available

I’m choosing to have blind faith that we aren’t that dumb but we may very well be.

I could very well see him being the hire. He fits from a culture/lockerroom standpoint which Horst and Edens might fall in love with. I'd be pretty bummed if they go that route.

I would be stunned if its anyone but nurse bud hardly ever if ever out coached anyone come PO time except monty ......that right there should disqualify him from the bucks gig.Have to give horst credit that he knows nurse abused bud in the ECFs absolutely out coached him he has to make the right call dont bring in someone who is actually worse in the POs than bud was

El Pooch Grande · Post #749 » by **El Pooch Grande** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:22 am

Another day, another nothing burger on the Nurse front

Daver · Post #750 » by **Daver** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:24 am

Juat read where suns are going to try n pry away lue from the clips not great news on that front if true cause then that opens clips job

emunney · Post #751 » by **emunney** » Sun May 14, 2023 2:38 am

Think Nurse wants to reunite with Kawhi? Would think so.

RiotPunch · Post #752 » by **RiotPunch** » Sun May 14, 2023 3:29 am

Monty would be too drastic of an overcorrection from Bud in the leadership/motivation department. Bud coached circles around him once he figured him out in the Finals. We would somehow get worse at in-game decision-making. I could see Giannis liking/respecting him, though.

I still think Lue is the best of both worlds. We get more in-game adjustments and a guy that can relate to the players more. Sucks we have to compete with Booker/Durant for these guys now.

mke_design · Post #753 » by **mke_design** » Sun May 14, 2023 3:46 am

Is Monty good at all?

Post #754 » by **Prez** » Sun May 14, 2023 3:52 am

I’d lose my mind if it’s Monty.

Slim Charless · Post #755 » by **Slim Charless** » Sun May 14, 2023 3:52 am

mke_design wrote:Is Monty good at all?

No.

Plossum · Post #756 » by **Plossum** » Sun May 14, 2023 4:00 am

Monty is a good coach but he has a pretty old school approach to the game. I think from memory the suns were the top mid range shooting team under his watch. Didn’t take a lot of three by modern NBA standards.

He wouldn’t be the worst hire we could make but I think there are better candidates available.

Karsenmitsche · Post #757 » by **Karsenmitsche** » Sun May 14, 2023 4:17 am

Plossum wrote:Monty is a good coach but he has a pretty old school approach to the game. I think from memory the suns were the top mid range shooting team under his watch. Didn’t take a lot of three by modern NBA standards.

He wouldn’t be the worst hire we could make but I think there are better candidates available.

they have booker, cp3, and kd...

machu46 · Post #758 » by **machu46** » Sun May 14, 2023 4:19 am

Plossum wrote:Monty is a good coach but he has a pretty old school approach to the game. I think from memory the suns were the top mid range shooting team under his watch. Didn’t take a lot of three by modern NBA standards.

He wouldn’t be the worst hire we could make but I think there are better candidates available.

To be fair, mid-rangers are what CP3, Booker, and Durant want to do regardless of coach.

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Frank Nova · Post #759 » by **Frank Nova** » Sun May 14, 2023 4:30 am

You can’t hire the coach that the fired coach beat in the ship. You just can’t. That’s absolute madness to do something so ass backwards like that. That would be the ultimate kick in the nuts for Bud.. We gotta be better than that..

emunney · Post #760 » by **emunney** » Sun May 14, 2023 4:46 am

Frank Nova wrote:You can’t hire the coach that the fired coach beat in the ship. You just can’t. That’s absolute madness to do something so ass backwards like that. That would be the ultimate kick in the nuts for Bud.. We gotta be better than that..

I completely agree. Even if the guy is a great, great coach. It's too dissonant.

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